Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act of reproducing or the condition or process of being reproduced.
- noun Something reproduced, especially in the faithfulness of its resemblance to the form and elements of the original.
- noun Biology The sexual or asexual process by which organisms generate new individuals of the same kind; procreation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In forestry: The process by which a forest is renewed, whether natural or artificial.
- noun Seedlings or saplings from sprouts or from self-sown seed.
- noun The act or process of reproducing, presenting, or yielding again; repetition.
- noun The act or process of restoring parts of an organism that have been destroyed or removed.
- noun Specifically The process whereby new individuals are generated and the perpetuation of the species is insured; the process whereby new organisms are produced from those already existing: as, the reproduction of plants or animals.
- noun That which is produced or revived; that which is presented anew; a repetition; hence, also, a copy.
- noun In psychology, the act of repeating in conseiousness a group of sensations which has already been presented in perception.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The act or process of reproducing; the state of being reproduced.
- noun That which is reproduced.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
reproducing newindividuals biologically - noun The act of making
copies - noun A
copy of something, as in a piece of art; aduplicate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of generating offspring
- noun the sexual activity of conceiving and bearing offspring
- noun copy that is not the original; something that has been copied
- noun the act of making copies
- noun recall that is hypothesized to work by storing the original stimulus input and reproducing it during recall
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Examples
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That with the increased productiveness of labour there is increased facility for the reproduction of machinery required for the production of water, light, fuel, and food; and that this diminution in the cost _of reproduction_ is attended with a constant diminution in the value of all such machinery previously accumulated, and diminution in the proportion of the product of labour that can be demanded as rent for their use; and thus, while labour steadily increases in its power to yield commodities of every kind required by man, capital as steadily diminishes in its power over the labourer.
The slave trade, domestic and foreign Why It Exists, and How It May Be Extinguished 1836
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Thus it is possible to speak of physical parenthood and of psychical parenthood, and thus not only to avoid the term reproduction, but to get better value out of its substitutes.
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Will email in case you have a way. the reproduction is not perfect but it illustrates the layout
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She said the moral right of women to make decisions about reproduction is essential for them to be recognized as human beings and while she respects the "category of fetal life," she doesn't "have a sense of individual fetuses as possessing high value."
Christine A. Scheller: The Abortion Debate: Open Hearts, Open Minds and Tragedy as a Fair Minded Word Christine A. Scheller 2010
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One of the discoverers of the structure of DNA, Francis Crick, credited What Is Life? as a theoretical description, before the actual discovery of the structure of DNA (the existence of the molecule had been known for nearly 2 decades, but its role in reproduction and its helical shape had not even been guessed at this time), of how genetic storage would work and a source for inspiration for the initial research.
Archive 2009-03-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Bucks skylarked with bucks or flirted with the maidens, while the older squaws, shut out from this by virtue of having fulfilled the end of their existence in reproduction, gossiped as they braided rope from the green roots of trailing vines.
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Now if we can all have the same protection in reproduction, then we would eliminate these wedge issues meant to distract from real issues.
Think Progress » Judge strikes down Arkansas law banning same-sex couples from adopting. 2010
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She said the moral right of women to make decisions about reproduction is essential for them to be recognized as human beings and while she respects the "category of fetal life," she doesn't "have a sense of individual fetuses as possessing high value."
Christine A. Scheller: The Abortion Debate: Open Hearts, Open Minds and Tragedy as a Fair Minded Word Christine A. Scheller 2010
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Now if we can all have the same protection in reproduction, then we would eliminate these wedge issues meant to distract from real issues. come together lyrics
Think Progress » Judge strikes down Arkansas law banning same-sex couples from adopting. 2010
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She said the moral right of women to make decisions about reproduction is essential for them to be recognized as human beings and while she respects the "category of fetal life," she doesn't "have a sense of individual fetuses as possessing high value."
Christine A. Scheller: The Abortion Debate: Open Hearts, Open Minds and Tragedy as a Fair Minded Word Christine A. Scheller 2010
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I prefer the term “social reproduction,” coined by Marxist-feminists in the 1970s, which refers to the labor—paid and unpaid, inside and outside the home—necessary to sustain life.
How Capitalism Invented the Care Economy Premilla Nadasen 2021
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